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Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City. It is the county seat for Monroe County.
Rochester's city population according to the 2010 census is approximately 210,565, making it New York's third most populous city after New York City and Buffalo. It is at the center of a larger Metropolitan Area which encompasses and extends beyond Monroe County and includes Genesee County, Livingston County, Ontario County, Orleans County and Wayne County. This area, which is part of the Western New York region, had a population of 1,054,323 people at the time of the 2010 Census. As of July, 2011, the Census estimates indicated that this population rose to 1,055,278 .
Rochester was one of America's first "boomtowns" and rose to prominence initially as the site of many flour mills located on the Genesee River, then as a major manufacturing hub. Rochester is now an international center of higher education, as well as medical and technological development. The region is known for many acclaimed universities, and several of them (notably the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology) are nationally renowned for their research programs. In addition, Rochester has been and continues to be the site of many important inventions and innovations in consumer products. The Rochester area is currently home to corporations such as Kodak, Bausch & Lomb and Xerox that conduct extensive research and manufacturing in the fields of industrial and consumer products. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest regional economy in New York State according to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, after the New York City metropolitan area.
Actors: Redd Foxx (actor), Dick Gregory (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Stepin Fetchit (actor), Bill Bellamy (actor), Steve Allen (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Willie Best (actor), Bill Cosby (actor), Tommy Davidson (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), David Alan Grier (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: George Burns (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Gregory Peck (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Henny Youngman (actor), Morey Amsterdam (actor), Nancy Sinatra (actress), Irving Fein (producer), Hal Goldman (writer), Al Gordon (writer), Gary Puckett (actor), Tim Withem (actor), Paul Wheatbread (actor), Gary Puckett and The Union Gap (actor), Kerry Chater (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Music,Actors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Don Wilson (actor), Robert McKimson (director), Treg Brown (editor), Tedd Pierce (writer), Milt Franklyn (composer), John W. Burton (producer), Mary Livingstone (actress),
Plot: In this spoof of "The Jack Benny Program", a mouse with 'Jack Benny' (qv)'s personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version of Benny's valet, 'Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson' (qv), in a hole in a wall of Jack Benny's own home. Jack the rodent takes a mouse version of 'Mary Livingstone (I)' out to dinner, and the two unwittingly walk right into the disguised mouth of an orange cat!
Keywords: based-on-radio-show, cat-versus-mouse, character-name-in-title, merrie-melodies, part-live-action, surrealismActors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Irene Dunne (actress), Loretta Young (actress), William Perlberg (producer), Leo McCarey (director), Bing Crosby (actor), Paul Douglas (actor), William Holden (actor), Bob Hope (actor), Ann Blyth (actress), Jimmy Van Heusen (actor), Johnny Burke (actor), James G. Keller (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Carole Landis (actress), Ralph Staub (producer), Ralph Staub (writer), Edgar Bergen (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), James Gleason (actor), Phil Harris (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Groucho Marx (actor), Alice Faye (actress), Ken Murray (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Jerome Thoms (editor), Ralph Staub (actor), James Stewart (actor),
Plot: James Gleason drops by to visit Ralph Staub at the Columbia lot and Staub, as he was inclined to do, pulls out a few reels of World War II "Screen Snapshots", and he and Gleason reminisce about the footage, while the camera turns and, presto, yet another Screen Snapshots entry comprised of about 90% stock footage. This one shows movie-and-radio stars and names around Hollywood entertaining the troops at various California Army/Navy/Marine camps. Faces seen and voices heard (again) include Carole Landis, Groucho Marx and Jack Benny.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, actor, actress, american-flag, archive-footage, army-air-corps, army-base, broadcast, cigar-smokingActors: Jack Benny (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Patty Andrews (actress), Maxene Andrews (actress), Isaac Stern (actor), Laverne Andrews (actress), Margaret Whiting (actress), The Andrews Sisters (actress), Chester Lauck (actor), Norris Goff (actor), Valerie Scott (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jeff Donnell (actress), Jessie Arnold (actress), John Tyrrell (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), John Hubbard (actor), Eugene Jackson (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Louis Mason (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Bradley Page (actor), Walter Soderling (actor), Dub Taylor (actor), Harry Tyler (actor), Theresa Harris (actress),
Plot: Freddy Martin and his band go on a trailer vacation, taking along Rochester as a handy man. They run out of gas in a ghost town and have to spend the night in the deserted Palace Hotel. The next morning, Ann Crawford and her three friends, Josie, Billie and May, arrive as Ann has inherited the hotel and most of the surrounding property, and she and her friends have pooled their savings to pay off the debts and formed a company to run the hotel. Jimmie Ross, singer with the band, decides to help the girls and has the hotel done over at his expense. Rochester, digging in the Victory Garden he has started, finds a gold nugget and the rush is on. Gangster Pete Hartley and his henchmen move in with intentions of taking over. He succeeds, over Ann's protests, in buying the property from her friends. Jimmie returns and thinks Ann has double-crossed him and they quarrel and part. Jimmie discovers that Rochester's gold nugget was his own gold inlay. Later, back on the radio with Freddie's band, Jimmie sings a song especially to Ann, who he hopes is listening.
Keywords: big-band, gold, miningActors: Edgar Dearing (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Ward Bond (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), James Burke (actor), George Barrows (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Monte Collins (actor), Andy Devine (actor),
Plot: Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, boast, bound-and-gagged, character-name-in-title, dude-ranch, nevada, new-york-city, rival, singer, sister-sister-relationshipActors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Wesley Barry (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Jack Benny (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Phil Harris (actor), Charles Irwin (actor), Cecil Kellaway (actor), Norman Ainsley (actor),
Plot: Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Keywords: comedian, infidelity, jealousy, london-england, revueActors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Billy Engle (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), James Bush (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), John Arledge (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), W.C. Fields (actor),
Plot: Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. Vicky turns down her caddish but rich suitor Roger Bel-Goodie, but changes her mind when she learns of her father's financial troubles. Will Vicky marry for money or succumb to the ventriloqual charm of Edgar Bergen? Will Whipsnade's Circus Giganticus make it over the state line one jump ahead of the sheriff?
Keywords: blackface, circus, con-trick, elephant, greed, lion, racial-slur, screwball, sideshow, title-spoken-by-character